Articles Posted by dominique
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Teachable Moments For Us Parents Can Be Found in the 24-Hour News Cycle Here’s hoping the seemingly endless stream of scary news stories about children will motivate us, not paralyze us …
by dominique DiPrima Three young girls held hostage and tortured for a decade by a sadistic school bus driver in Ohio…A fifteen-year-old in Miami put in a chokehold for giving police officers “dehumanizing looks”…Five California teenagers killed in a horrific car crash in Newport Beach, vehicle going 100 plus miles an hour splits completely in […]
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There Are Scandals and Then There are Scandals While Media Debates Over Talking Points Within Talking Points, 11.7 Million Americas Are Unemployed While Gun Control, Education, and a Functional Budget Take a Back Seat …
by dominique DiPrima I am outraged over these egregious government scandals! As a patriotic citizen of the United States (as Reese Witherspoon would say!) I demand answers, and immediate action to remedy these shameful episodes that are undermining our very democracy! You may assume I am talking about Benghazi, where Republicans are taking a stand […]
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Basketball Equality, Same Sex Marriage and other Media Minefields… Jason Collins, the first active (male) pro sports athlete to come out, pushes us to face our feelings about so much more than sports and sexuality…
by dominique DiPrima I’ve been meaning to sit down and blog about marriage equality for months. It is a topic I’ve had a definite opinion about since back in 1997 when I did a radio show on same-sex marriage and broadcast live from the gay mecca of West Hollywood. It was a festive show, complete […]
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The Sistah-Hood is Alive and Well Over Ten Thousand Women Come Together in Los Angeles…Vanessa Bell Calloway Shares Her Painful Secret in Hopes of Saving Lives.
by dominique DiPrima April 27th 2013 was a good day for women in Los Angeles, and it was a great day for the sisterhood! While it would be easy to take the 13th Annual KJLH Women’s Health Forum for granted as just another little community health fair, it would be a mistake to do so. […]
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The Importance of Rose Colored Glasses
by dominique DiPrima Almost every day on my radio show on 102.3 KJLH-FM Los Angeles we deal with the tension between looking at the problems facing Black America and focusing on the solutions. We vacillate between focusing on discrimination and the many tricky forms it takes, or maintaining an unwavering focus on what we want […]
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An Inauguration for the “New” America – A Rainbow of One Million Plus People Descend on Washington DC to Celebrate the Second Swearing in of the 44th President
by dominique DiPrima January 19th, 2013 was my very first time witnessing the inauguration of a U.S. President live and in person. I was there to represent the radio station I work for, KJLH-FM and the listeners I serve (Black Los Angeles, Black America, Progressive America.) But I was also there as a citizen and […]
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January 6, 2012: On New Beginnings The Return of the Light, The New Year, A Fresh Mayan 26,00 Year Cycle…
by dominique DiPrima Whether it’s the Winter Solstice signaling the return of the light, the beginning of a fresh 26,000 year cycle in the Mayan Calendar, Three Kings Day 2013 heralding the end of the holiday cycle and the start of a new year or simply another Monday morning, new beginnings bring new opportunities and […]
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December 21, 2012: Time to Get Connected to the Inner-Net In a High Speed Age We Must Remember to Download Our Own Truth …
by dominique DiPrima As we approach the resetting of the Mayan Calendar, the Winter Solstice, and the beginning of a new year, or perhaps even a new age, it is a great time to look within. Throughout the election cycle, the holiday cycles and the 24-hour news cycle, it’s easy to get caught up in […]
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2012: The Black Agenda: The Prison/Gang Industrial Complex (Pt. 4 of 4)… While We’re Preparing for an Historic Inaugration…Let’s Focus on What We Want …
by dominique DiPrima I’m looking forward to the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. I didn’t get to go in 2008. But I will be there in 2012, reporting for 102.3 KJLH-FM and I am looking forward to it (trust me, it would have to be major to get this California kid […]
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2012: The Black Agenda: Housing/Financial Reform (Pt. 3 of 4)… While We’re Celebrating Victory…Let’s Focus on What We Want …
by dominique DiPrima I’m still celebrating our 2012 victory every day in ways big and small. Mostly I celebrate by giving thanks, often silently, for so many things that we’ve created and averted by re-electing the 44th President. Sometimes there are shared conversations with friends and acquaintances where we speak with gratitude of the increased […]
